I am not a Mac rumor guy ... but this jumped out at me. This is sort of old news, but as I was logging into my .Mac admin panel I noticed that I had a TB of data transfer ... that was the other day, now when I log in I don't see any mention of it ... hmm? It sorts of makes me think this is tied to the whole MacWorld thing coming up this month. I remember back in the day -- you know maybe 13 months ago or so, Adam Curry was using a .Mac account to deliver his podcasts because they didn't have a hard limit on bandwidth transfer. That changed. But, here we are creeping back up to a very respectable (even generous) level. This has me thinking that thre are potentially two things going on ...
The first is a real podcasting application and distribution system built on the iLife tools with big hooks to .Mac ... that would be a major deal for me. I podcast here and there -- for both personal use and, with more frequency, for educational purposes. The process is relatively straightforward, but still not easy enough for my tasts. I want one click easy ... you know, click once and record, click again to stop, encode, add meta data, and publish ... ok, that's two clicks, but you get the picture. For my dollar iLife is missing a simple publishing tool (read personal content management system) that supports RSS enclosures. .Mac would provide the perfect platform. BTW, we are working on a simple classroom podcasting toolset at PSU ... more on that later.
The second is some sort of media transfer capacity ... this has been writen about before and as cool as it all sounds, doesn't get me as excited as a podcasting/writing application does. Trust me, I have my eye on the whole Intel Mac Mini as DVR/Media Center thing rumor mill thing but at the end of the day I can live without it. I know it would be great for a lot of people, but my life isn't driven by TV or video so I am not as jacked at these prospects.
Eiter way, that is my big rumor post for the new year ... I am hoping for option 1, that's for sure. Thoughts?
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